Quotes About Comparison

Pride flees when we compare ourselves to God instead of [to] other people.

Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.

Too many times we are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this [world] we can become.

Envy and greed always—always—exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.

Some people seem to put the devil on a par with God. Actually, Satan is a fallen angel.

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

I probably said something about being happy for him, because I was happy for him, although to be happy for someone else doesn't mean that you are happy for yourself.

It's easy for me to say, 'Our era is the best, and I was the best,' and all that. But in my mind, I think we could compete and do really well, but you never know until you're out there. And I say that because I played against guys that I thought were really good when I came in the league, and after playing against those guys I'd say, 'Well, he's not that good.'

Everyone has their own reasons. Suffering and happiness aren't things that you can compare.

I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare

What always happens, in my experience, is that people always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Those people who look so together. They're as insecure as anyone. Maybe more so. You're as smart as any of them.

Scandal, like other Virtues, is in part its own Reward, as it gives us the Satisfaction of making our selves appear better than others, or others no better than ourselves. My

Communist China is doing the same shit as America is doing, but they're out front with it.

Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister.

That's because they're people, only smarter. They know us better than we know them, and a lot of them have a sense of humor. They're exactly like us minus our useless mental power and thumbs.

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

When asked if he was better than Morphy, Steinitz, and Capablanca, Fischer responded, Well, I don't like to put things like that in print, it sounds so egotistical. But to answer your question, Yes."- Ginzburg interview, Harper's Magazine 1962

So there they stood, side by side, the better for me to compare them, an elderly gentleman and a young man, as thousands of cobalt-colored flies swooped in thousands of wild nosedives, their metallic wings and bodies embroidering an immense tableau vivant made up of constantly shifting curves and splashes like the flow of paint in those gigantic Jackson Pollocks.

Ireland has a very different attitude to success than a lot of places, certainly than over here in the United States. In the United States, you look at the guy that lives in the mansion on the hill, and you think, you know, one day, if I work really hard, I could live in that mansion. In Ireland, people look up at the guy in the mansion on the hill and go, one day, I'm going to get that bastard. It's a different mind-set.

The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.